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    FTSE/Africa index series/Esignal alternative

    As a result of Esignal messing up their datafeeds quite a large group of Futures Traders in South Africa that have used Esignal for realtime feed of the FTSE/Africa Index series now have to find an alternative to Esignal. ANybody with suggestions for reliable alternative realtime datafeeds that...
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    FTSE Index data feed/Esignal alternative

    As a result of Esignal messing up their datafeeds quite a large group of Futures Traders in South Africa that have used Esignal for realtime feed of the FTSE/Africa Index series now have to find an alternative to Esignal. ANybody with suggestions for reliable alternative realtime datafeeds that...
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    1/4% Tax on all stock trades pushed in NY Times today

    what baker et al is not really taking into account is the cost to the economy. The biggest effect will be in non-directional trading where traders take huge position sizes for relatively certain small profits, ie nofmal hedging , pairs trading, arbitrage, delta-hedged option books etc. This...
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    Have you ever blown up your trading account?

    while still working for a salary i traded equities with a month+ holding period in the bull markets basically long only. I made enough to stop working but my money were in crap shares at that point, so i resigned but love trading so i started focusing on system trading index futures while...
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    1/4% Tax on all stock trades pushed in NY Times today

    i am a trader outside the US. the almost only thing we admire of the US is the efficiency of your markets. All this shit started out in the least efficient of markets, ie housing and over the counter markets, and half of the problem later on was related with the problems of a sensible mark to...
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